When progressives want to restrict choice

Interesting piece about private daycare operators in various parts of the country… who are being targeted by the Left for being bad ugly people who use children to make a profit. Or something; it’s hard to understand exactly what it is that the NDP’s Olivia Chow objects to, since even state-sanctioned not-for-profit daycare centres employ people who make money caring for children. But anyway. Ms. Chow, whose private member bill “would commit Ottawa to a national daycare plan and deny funding to any new for-profit centre”, seems reasonably certain that “private” money is somehow worse than the “public” kind. (Though I agree with her when she says that “Tax dollars should not be going to a company’s bottom line” – it’s just that I would apply that principle across the board, not just against companies I don’t like.)

But that’s not what got my attention. What really grabbed me is right in the first paragraph:

Private sector daycare is under attack in many parts of the country, with vocal opponents claiming that earning a profit is fundamentally at odds with proper child care. [emphasis added]

Isn’t that what people used to say about health care? That it was wrong to make a profit caring for sick people? That it would be better if the state took over?

We all know how well that turned out, do we.

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Tanya remarks: “Tax dollars should not be going to a company’s bottom line.” Oh, like the bottom line for an organization like Planned Parenthood, say?

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